Best 200$ PC build?

We went to goodwill yesterday. Smelled horrid and a bunch of rednecks in there. Found nothing but old tape decks and dvd players. No dell optiplexes or nothing. Where i'm located at, no good listings for computers. All some dirty old used laptops.

 

Look up used parts stores in your area

 

And also make sure to steer clear from cheap no name power supply's because they can blow your other components.

 

$200 isn't gonna get you anywhere. I was in the same spot a few months ago; trying to spend a pithy amount of money hoping to play games, looking through used workstation PCs, checking crappy PSU wattages...

Now, $600 or so later, I couldn't be happier. 600 is 3x what I wanted to spend, but it sure as hell performs many times more than 3 better over what I had.

The 750 Ti, a $100+ card is not realistic when you have a budget of $200.

Your best bet with only $200 would be a used workstation, like this one: https://goo.gl/EHB67z. It's really not good, but I just don't think you will do much better with $200.

 

Found some used on ebay. In this situation, ebay is your best friend for getting things cheap. Unless you get a 50 dollar graphics card and replace the junk PSU with a corsair or something, it would do.

Newegg has some refurbished big PCs with lots of room in em.

 

If you're going to go the used PC route, Lenovo (thinkserver or workstations) will get the best bang for the buck, especially used ones. In the words of many a tech guy working in store or even outside 'we rarely to never get these back, while the Dells and HP's come back all the time'.

While you should build your own, you're not going to have a pleasurable experience for 200$. That's better put into buying RAM and an SSD and new OS for old computer. That's what I did with the Athlon II 2.9ghz dual core machine I built my retirement-aged mother back in 2008. Still runs. Boots Windows 10 in ~4 seconds from bios. It still runs, and it does so quickly and fairly quietly, with 4gb of ram (doubled from 2gb, I had spares laying about), and a Kingston HyperX 120gb SSD (maxes the sata II interface but still is very responsive, she doesn't even want to look at a new computer now). Even if it's a core2 duo, a new SSD and Windows 10 will make it FLY. You can also keep your current Windows 7 or 8 and clone it over to the new SSD drive. Just make sure to have at-least 4gb of ram if it's a web-browsing and email machine/Netflix etc.

If they want a good machine, skip dell. Go business HP, or preferrably LENOVO, Lenovo is the best of prebuilts.
Cheap machines have cheap power-supplies that will explode when trying to power an fancy video card and kill the whole computer.
Cheap machines have cheap VRM's / Coils /Chokes etc (power delivery stuff) that throw a lot of noise and interference and also don't last that long. They also have cheap caps with shorter life, and less heat tolerance.
Cheap machines don't keep cool and die a hot smelly death early so you have to buy a whole new machine when the warranty is out.
Cheap machines easily cost at-least 200$ to fix when they die a hot death (prices from a licensed tech at a place of business including parts & labor).
It's a self-feeding issue, meaning it keeps the user enrolled in it's planned obsolecence where if they spent their money more wisely they wouldn't have this issue and would have a computer for many many years that was still fast and reliable.
Even machines I built back in 2001 still ran by the time 2008~2010 came around.

Oh surely you can buy a cheap machine, but it's not planned to last forever. They should save their money and buy a better machine then they won't have to spend so much later. Sorry if I sound rude, I am very blunt & honest. I spent a lot to build my computer, but it will last a decade, or darn close, almost 3 years now and it purrs along nicely.

 

I saw a good budget PC for 200€ in youtube (is in spanish thought). Of course all the componets were second-hand, but with some OC it could run GTA V for example in middle/high
Specs:
SSD: Samsung EVO 850 SSD 125GB: 25€
MB: Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H: 22€
GPU: ASUS GTX 770: 55€
CPU: AMD Phenton II X4 955 (OC to 4ghz): 27€
RAM: Kingston HyperX Blue 2x2GB: 10€
Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212X: 10€
PS: Corsair VS650: 34€
Box: NOX NX200: 15€
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Final price: 198€
Here is in case someone wants to check it (components start in 2:30)

 

he wants 200 american dollars not euros.

replace the case with a cardboard box and your in the budget!

 

No shit . Really, i just put that as example, to prove that you can do something with 200 dollars, euros or the currency you want to take

 

I want to build a computer for ¥200. Any suggestions?

 

Yes, save them, wait for night, go to the nearest PC shop and take one for free. You can leave the ¥200 on the shop for the damages